I knew it stank, hated that shit growing up. But I didn't realize just how fucking godawful it was until I moved out. My stuff reeked for months, or years if it was stored.

hotboxing while smoking in the car with the windows rolled up because it was cold, hot, or raining lol. used to get such wicked headaches from the car jfc

Bars? You little whippersnapper. There was a time when every table had an ashtray. Every table everywhere: restaurants, stores, the checkout line at the gas station, public transportation...

And I am not talking about smoking sections, that came later. I'm talking about people with lit cigarettes being as ubiquitous as people on cellphones today.

At least switch to vaping. It's 95% less harmful, especially if you go with an open mod and not sketchy gas station liquid.

We Americans have many, many faults, but one thing we've actually been pretty good about is cutting back on smoking. When I was a kid everyone smoked, and now it's pretty rare.

I think part of it is actually an unexpected benefit of capitalism. Restaurants and bars used to fight indoor smoking bans tooth and nail because all their cust6were smokers and they didn't want to lose them. But then when the bans would happen, business actually increased - especially for bars. Turned out lots of people wanted to be able to grab a drink after work but didn't want to go home smelling like cigarettes.

So now business groups other than big tobacco support the bans, which has resulted in a huge decline of social smoking.

US, New York state. My county banned smoking indoors before the state did. For a while you would see groups of people outside smoking but now it's the often just one or two if there's any. Of course, the smell of weed is everywhere now, so there's that.